Apple Care
Dec. 9th, 2004 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
To those of you who are already Apple users, is it worth purchasing Apple Care for an iBook? Is it more likely than not that I'll need some sort of service out of these folks that'll make the two hundred and some odd dollars worth the price?
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Date: 2004-12-09 03:21 pm (UTC)When you get that bill, you'll realize that parts are bad enough, but labor is an absolute bloodletting without some sort of extended warranty.
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Date: 2004-12-09 03:22 pm (UTC)"You might consider an extended warranty on a laptop computer. Laptops are expensive, fragile, and hard to repair. And the parts are made to fit within the manufacturer's unique case design. For that reason, you should buy the warranty from the manufacturer, not from the retailer. Also, with a manufacturer's warranty, you continue to enjoy access to free tech support."
And then the sidebar on the page was a list of products and their repair rate in the first three years of owning the product. Desktop PCs were highest, at 37%, then Laptop PCs were at 33%.
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Date: 2004-12-10 05:57 am (UTC)Apple has a pretty mixed track record with their computers as far as being shoddily made. you may get a good one, you may get a bad one. That's the gamble. Though if you're not a techie super-geek i'd recommend getting the service just to have the peace of mind.